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Calling all Baby Boomers! You’ve danced through the Flower Child years, discoed into the night, created a niche in the world of work for your Authentic Self, seen Hale-Bopp and recycled to save the planet. Now you’re hitting your 60’s, a time, traditionally, for retirement, re-definition of your life, and rest. Will you retire? Will you renew? How will you create meaning for your life now, particularly in these trying times? Dr. Bolen has been pondering, researching and writing about these issues for years. She has some answers–and she can answer your questions, live, at 866-613-1612 on January 25th.
Jean Shinoda Bolen brings an emphasis on the question for meaning and the need for a spiritual dimension in life to all aspects of her work, while also taking into account the powerful effects of archetypes within us and family and culture upon us. Her books are used as college and university texts in gender studies, women’s psychology, mythology, spirituality, east-west philosophy, and psychology. World renowned, Dr. Bolen is a psychiatrist who has been helping people the world over for more than 45 years. A Jungian analyst, Dr. Bolen has served with the American Psychiatric Association, the International Transpersonal Association, the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the Association for Women in Psychiatry. She is in the widely acclaimed documentary, “Goddess Remembered,” the first of the Canadian Film Board’s trilogy.
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I have noticed way too many commercials with a subtle push to stay active, which give me this uneasy feeling that someone doesn’t want boomers to retire and access the health care system all at once, LOL.
When my time comes, I want to do something besides jog, lift weights, and expend sweat equity to hide my age!
I sometimes wonder when I will be able to get to a point when I can just kick back and do things I want to do. I would like to think that in my older years, I can actually be active and do some things that I want to do, and not work all the time. But it seems like I work so hard these days just to pay bills! Even now I think sometimes that I would like to do some volunteer work or be active in my community, but I can’t afford the time to do anything I am not getting paid to do. I have a feeling that I will be active in my golden years whether I want to or not!
I’ve noticed that it seems this way, yes. When our parents thought of retirement, that’s what it *was*… time to do traveling and fun things. But with our generation, who’ll be able to afford it?
This is one of the downsides of the extended lifespan. I am pretty sure that when the age for retirements was set at 65, most people didn’t live too much longer past that age. Employers never really had to worry about paying out the full amount of retirement programs. Medical care past 65 probably extended for about two year and then the retiree’s life ended.
The social structure we currently live with isn’t built to accommodate people who might live into their 80’s or 90’s in the huge numbers projected.
Excellent point, SageMother… and thinking about it now, I’ll bet that *is* part of the problem. I think it was 1935 maybe when that started… but yet I’m thinking the age had been 62 at some point?
SageMother, you mean the United States has a health care system?
Trick-r-treat, isn’t it just the way it goes?
There used to be a time that retirees were able to do that, but with today’s society just working to get by instead of working to save for the future, people are working past the retiring age.
Katharina, the cost of living definitely has something to do with it.
It’s so hard to save and then still keep up with the daily expenses.
Also, life before then was just so simple and not a lot of money was wasted on frivolous stuff.
Me, I can’t resist the impulse to buy just about anything that comes my way…. To think of all the money I could have saved for retirement
SageMother, that is so true.
Even if you have life savings and have a decent pension plan, I’m sure that living under 80 or 90 can create a financial hardship for anyone.
Katharina, I’m sure it was once upon a time.
I know when a person still works over the age of 65, it can’t be because they enjoy really working at the job.
Good point. I think that would make a great poll of people over 65 who are still working. What percentage of them have no other choice vs. those who really love what they do and don’t WANT to retire.
Katharina, I’m not so sure there are people out there who truly *love* their job that they will never, ever retire.
Sure, maybe we’ll find some type A personalities trying to hang on to their job, but sooner or later, they’re going to want to get out of this crazy rat race.
I am working so *damn* hard so that I can retire early and I am not sticking around for one minute more
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